More particularly, there may not currently be a way to remove Amazon's kindle crypto since an update in 2019 I think. I'm not positive, but I recall reading that.

Me, I just refuse to buy the books from sellers that cruft them with DRM. And I'll tell any author that. I've been an avid reader of some authors and I've stopped buying their books because of how they are electronically distributed/enrcypted/managed. Vendor lock-in is a very bad idea. Several very rich folks have had shots at Apple over that issue related to music libraries and not being able to transfer them to their kids.

With a real book, I can give it away, I can sell it, I can share it. But I wouldn't with authors I buy and read because I want them to be encouraged to write more. The most I'd ever do is lend one to someone so they can see how the writer writes and then most of the time, I create a new reader who will buy their products by doing that. Smart authors know that.

Somehow I can equate platform and hardware lock in with a Vilani way of doing things. I'll bet the Vilani have IP laws that are good for 1 Imperium + 75 years...


On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:49 AM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 09:23:54 +0100, xxxxxx@tractare.co.uk wrote:

>On the Zahn books - Amazon.co.uk said not available, but the series showed as available on amazon.com...

Amazon doesn't speak ePub. Unless the publisher is Tor (I know it's
not Baen), there may not be a legal-in-the-US way to convert them from
Amazon's format to ePub.

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